CLRN - 1999 Product Of The Year - Internet Telephony & Computer Telephony
January 04, 2000 19:03
Clarent Awarded '1999 Product Of The Year' By Leading Industry
Publications
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2000--
Computer Telephony and Internet Telephony Honor Clarent's Technology for Technical Elegance, Clear
Market Direction, and Real
World Value
Clarent(tm) Corporation (Nasdaq:CLRN), a worldwide leader in providing carrier-grade, phone-to-phone
Internet Protocol (IP) telephony solutions, announced today that its Clarent Gateway 3.0 which features
the powerful ThroughPacket technology was named '1999 Product of the Year' by both Computer
Telephony and Internet Telephony magazines.
"We are honored to be recognized by these leading industry publications. The awards are a testament to
all of the hard work and dedication our team has invested in producing top-notch products and delivering
them to market with outstanding support services. The acknowledgment means a great deal and we look
forward to continuing this tradition of excellence in 2000," said Jerry Chang, CEO and president of
Clarent Corporation.
Computer Telephony
According to Computer Telephony, "Clarent Gateways have proven themselves for primetime during the
past year and have put this startup along side the giants of the industry. The gateways are admirably
flexible...They incorporate, from what we've seen, the best C7 signaling and international protocol support
-- a must for providing international long distance, currently one of IP telephony's biggest real world
implementations."
John Jainschigg, Computer Telephony editor-in-chief, commented on the award: "Convergence is
inevitable and will be enormously beneficial...Clarent is an excellent example of technology which
embraces standards and offers a real-world solution to a business problem. The company's products are
clean, straightforward, and illustrative of purpose.
"They are designed to evolve with emerging standards. Product of the Year winners are from companies
who have worked hard to understand their core markets, and whose products/services embody this
understanding at every level. Furthermore, the winners are mostly products whose 'value for money' is
clear cut -- they're worth buying. We think our choices will prove to be good investments over time."
Internet Telephony
"Vendors recognized as an Internet Telephony Product of the Year winner are looking ahead, leading the
charge and laying the groundwork for the next generation of global telecommunications. The award is
designed to honor innovative products and services that have contributed to the growth of the Internet
telephony industry.
"We see Clarent continuing to be a driving force in the IP telephony market in 2000 and beyond," said
Greg Galitzine, Internet Telephony executive editor.
About Clarent Gateways
The Clarent Gateway was designed from the ground up to support both traditional and next generation
telecommunications carriers' unique business and technical requirements. By relying on an advanced IP
telephony design, carriers can take advantage of the greater bandwidth efficiency, lower capital
requirements, and faster time to market typical of the Internet.
And they can do so without sacrificing the reliability, voice quality, or management flexibility required for
large-scale public telephony networks.
Providing for high-quality, high-capacity voice processing, Clarent Gateways support a wide range of
telephony interfaces including SS7/C7 and offer PSTN-like voice quality.
Forward Looking Statements
This release may contain forward-looking statements regarding Clarent's products, business, customers
or other factors that may affect future earnings or financial results. Such statements involve risks and
uncertainties, including but not limited to potential issues relating to inability to introduce new products,
ability to retain key customers, changes in market conditions, government regulations, the international
communications industry, technological changes and other factors, which could cause actual results to
vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. These risks and
uncertainties are described further in the risk factors discussed in Clarent's recent Prospectus, filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 23, 1999.
About Clarent Corporation
Clarent Corporation is a premier provider of scalable, IP telephony products to carriers and Internet
service providers around the world. Clarent's intelligent architecture and the Clarent Command Center
enable Clarent products to route, manage, inter-connect and terminate high volumes of calls for service
provider customers including the world's largest long distance telecommunication companies.
According to an iLocus report published in 1999, more minutes travel across Clarent-enabled networks
worldwide than those of any other equipment supplier.(1)
Founded in July 1996, Clarent is headquartered in Redwood City, and has offices in major cities in Asia,
Europe, Latin America and North America. Additional information about Clarent is available at
www.clarent.com.
Note to Editors: Clarent is a registered trademark of Clarent Corporation in the United States and other
jurisdictions. All other company or product names mentioned may be trademarks or registered
trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
(1) "IP Telephony Clearinghouses -- A New Business Model." Published November 1999 by iLocus.
iLocus, a division of Cape Saffron Ltd., is an UK-based research group focused on the IP telephony
industry. ilocus.com
CONTACT: Clarent Corporation, Redwood City
Amy Wright, 650/481-1743
amy@clarent.com
or
Phase Two Strategies
Steven Fielding, 415/772-8451
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